El Salvador

A survey found that 55% of Colombians would like to have a president like the one in El Salvador; meanwhile, some local candidates are promising to import his rigid security model

The president ordered the mobilization of more than 5,000 military and 500 police officers in a new show of force. ‘They will pay dearly for the assassination of our hero,’ he warned

As the U.S. prepares for the end of Title 42 restrictions, officials have released few details about who would be eligible for the immigration permissions known as family reunification parole

Under the agreement, Mexico will continue to accept migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua who are turned away at the border

José Wilfredo Ayala, second-in-command of the notorious MS-13 criminal organization and one the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, faces multiple charges in New York

Violence and organized crime are on the rise across the region, upending government plans and putting citizens on alert

The Salvadoran president has appointed two U.S. crypto investors to lead the country’s National Bitcoin Office, as the IMF issues more warnings about the country’s so-called volcano bonds

Two former inmates talk to EL PAÍS about the terrors they saw while imprisoned in the country’s jails, which are at breaking point due to Bukele’s controversial crackdown on gangs

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights is investigating how a 21-year-old, who was diagnosed with lupus and carrying a fetus that would not survive outside the womb, was not allowed to terminate the pregnancy

One year ago, President Nayib Bukele suspended constitutional rights and started an all-out offensive on gangs, leading to the arrest of more than 65,000 people

Right-wing politicians like María Fernanda Cabal admire the president of El Salvador, while leftist president Gustavo Petro sees him as a foe

On Wednesday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will hear the case of Beatriz, who died at age 21 after being denied an abortion. EL PAÍS looks at the other women who have lost their lives due to the region’s restrictive rules

The Salvadoran president’s fierce war on gangs has quelled rampant violence and gained him unprecedented popularity while exacting a heavy toll on rights and freedoms

The prison transfer came the same day El Salvador’s congress voted to approve yet another extension of emergency rules that allow police to round up suspected members of street gangs

Doctors Without Borders has identified sexual violence as one of the most heinous problems in Mexico and Central America

The technocrat president of El Salvador has transformed into an authoritarian despot with no regard for the rule of law and human rights

The president assures that the prisoners ‘will live for decades’ in the immense prison built as part of his controversial security strategy, where they will not be able to do ‘any more harm to the population’

The records, to which Human Rights Watch has had access, have exposed overcrowding, deaths in custody and the detention of over 1,000 minors including children as young as 12

The Mexican president told his US counterpart to ‘do away’ with his ‘abandonment of Latin America’ in a bilateral meeting held as part of the North American Leaders’ Summit

The Mara Salvatrucha, the largest and most dangerous criminal structure in the country, is losing ground thanks to President Nayib Bukele’s state of emergency. But at what cost?

The move marks an escalation of the president’s controversial crackdown on criminal organizations, which has been widely condemned by human rights groups